Molecular Identification of Forensically Significant Coffin Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Eastern India Using COI Barcodes
Oishik Kar, Moubanti Das, Arka Mukherjee, Atanu Naskar & Dhriti Banerjee · Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology · 2025
Coffin flies (Diptera: Phoridae) are crucial to forensic studies because they can inhabit coffins or be found on buried corpses, thus aiding in determining the postmortem interval (PMI) and body relocation in criminal cases. But phorid flies are hard to identify because they are...
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10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i103112